Dr. Sereana Naepi
Bula Vinaka, I currently teach in the Sociology program and completed my undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Auckland before completing my PhD at the University of British Columbia. As an emerging Pasifika researcher, I was the founding associate-director of All My Relations; an Indigenous research center at Thompson Rivers University (Canada) and co-founded the Indigenous research development program Knowledge Makers in Canada. I have been successful in applying for international research grants and publish both nationally and internationally on equity and higher education. Before beginning my research, I worked supporting Māori and Pasifika students in MAPAS and Tuākana Arts.